Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

The instinct of the people is right.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?