We cannot study nature profoundly without bringing ourselves into communion with the spirit of art which pervades and fills the universe.
If there be one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man; it is a man who dares to look the devil in the face, and tell him he is a devil.
It is one of the precious mysteries of sorrow, that it finds solace in unselfish thought.
True art is but the anti-type of nature, the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
In order to have any success in life, or any worthy success, you must resolve to carry into your work a fulness of knowledge; not merely a sufficiency, but more than a sufficiency.