“What is art? Nature concentrated.”

“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”

“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”

“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.”

“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”

“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”

“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”