It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.