All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.