The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.