The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of…

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.

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.

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

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

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