Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.