Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

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.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.