He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

A book worth reading is worth buying.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.