The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

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

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.