It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.