"The eye is the best of artists...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”

“Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.”

“Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.”

“Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest”

“And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.”

“You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.”

“Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.”

“Music is the mirror of reality.”

“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.”