He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

You're either with us... or you're with the memes!

That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

Style disdains comfort and is always ready to sacrifice virtue.

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.