"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone."
"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study."
"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."