Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

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