Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

Take everything you can get over in center. The Dago's heel is hurting pretty bad.

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.