The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.