As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no…

Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.