Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.