All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

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

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.