They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.