All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.