Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

The soul knows no persons.