That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.