Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.