A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

Work first, and then rest.

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

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.