“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude”

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed”

“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty”

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress”

“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty”