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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.
No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.
Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.
Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.