Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.