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

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.

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.

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