Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.