He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy) and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own heart’s blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. v

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

God alone can finish.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.