It Takes A Great Deal Of Living

Skill Is The Unified Force Of Experience, Intellect And Passion In Their Operation.

The Only Absolutely And Unapproachably Heroic Element In The Soldier's Work Seems To Be-that He Is Paid Little For It-and Regularly.

Conceit May Puff A Man Up, But Never Prop Him Up.

Life Without Industry Is Guilt, And Industry Without Art Is Brutality.

It Is Not So Much In Buying Pictures As In Being Pictures, That You Can Encourage A Noble School. The Best Patronage Of Art Is Not That Which Seeks For The Pleasures Of Sentiment In A Vague Ideality, Nor For Beauty Of Form In A Marble Image, But That Which Educates Your Children Into Living Heroes, And Binds Down The Flights And The Fondnesses Of The Heart Into Practical Duty And Faithful Devotion.