Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.