An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.