“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art”

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”