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.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

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