All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.