An empire is an immense egotism.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

There is no history; only biography.