Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.