The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.