The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.