No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

There is no wealth but life.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.