All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

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

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.