It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.