I know well that happiness is in little things.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

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.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.