You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Today is a king in disguise.

When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.