Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.