Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.