What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.