No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

See! This our fathers did for us.

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

There is no wealth but life.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.