If a book is worth reading it is worth buying.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a rid...
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
There is no wealth but life.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the gre...