... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.

Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.