Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.

No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober.