White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.