"Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea."

"Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; "'T is the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy."

"The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below, And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow."

"Buttercups and Daisies— Oh, the pretty flowers, Coming ere the spring time, To tell of sunny hours."

"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…"