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

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.