The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.