When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
As our inclinations, so our opinions.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will – it’s only action that can make a man.
Colour itself is a degree of darkness...
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God’s might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it.
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
Men’s prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.