No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.