... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Those who trust us educate us.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.