Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.