Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.