"The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams o…"

"I send thee pansies while the year is young, Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night; Flowers of remembrance, ever fo…"

"And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.""

"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…"