All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.