If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.