There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

Fear is a great instructor.