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

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

When your in pain you slowly killing your self but when your happy you are repairing the pain that slowly killing you

We know a little about a lot of things

No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

You can't be a good leader without good character.