Be an opener of doors.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
We are wiser than we know.
Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven’t as yet arrived.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.’ I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her… I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
That old law about an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
