"[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.”

“Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.”

“Beauty rests on necessities.”

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.”

“Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.”

“I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.”

“The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.”

“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!”