Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.