The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Work first, and then rest.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.