Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.