It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.