"It is not sufficient to see and..." - Quote by Voltaire

“The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.”

“When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.”

“To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.”

“In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.”

“Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.”

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”

“Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.”

“Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”