It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

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