“The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.”

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.

Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.