All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.