Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

The best thing in life aren't things.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.