"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother."

"For God, who lives above the skies, Would look with vengeance in his eyes If I should ever dare despise My mother."

"I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy Englis…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

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

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"

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