"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"

"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap."

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."