Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.