All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

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.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.