We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.