The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.