Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to “gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool,” but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation’s welfare, are dearer than life.

Newspapers are the world’s mirrors.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.