Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labour.
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.