I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.