The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.