I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.