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

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

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

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he may lose it

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few, but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many