Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.