Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention..

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not o….

All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitute….

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or liter….

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself i….

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration..

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure..

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks..

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture witho….