Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.