No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

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.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

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

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.