Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.