Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness. and concealed often hardens into revenge

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth