How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
Benjamin HaydonDo your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
Benjamin HaydonThe explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
Benjamin HaydonMistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
Benjamin Haydon