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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious t...more

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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...more

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world....more

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a h...more

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.