Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.