The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.