I know well that happiness is in little things.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.