At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.