Artists Are Always Young.

It Is Not Because The Touch Of Genius Has Roused Genius To Production, But Because The Admiration Of Genius Has Made Talent Ambitious, That The Harvest Is Still So Abundant.

I Now Know All The People Worth Knowing In America, And I Find No Intellect Comparable To My Own.

There Is Such A Rebound From Parental Influence That It Generally Seems That The Child Makes Use Of The Directions Given By The Parent Only To Avoid The Prescribed Path.

Most Marvelous And Enviable Is That Fecundity Of Fancy Which Can Adorn Whatever It Touches, Which Can Invest Naked Fact And Dry Reasoning With Unlooked-for Beauty, Make Flowers Bloom Even On The Brow Of The Precipice, And, When Nothing Better Can Be Had, Can Turn The Very Substance Of Rock Itself Into Moss And Lichens. This Faculty Is Uncomparingly The Most Important For The Vivid And Attractive Exhibition Of Truth To The Minds Of Men.

Our Desires, Once Realized, Haunt Us Again Less Readily.