Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Genius is infinite painstaking.
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection