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.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.