He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

. . . Therefore I am wel pleased to take any coulor to defend your honour and hope you wyl remember that who seaketh two strings to one bowe, he may shute strong but never strait.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

One day the faithful will have it all!

Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ I give Thee thanks, O God.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

A weak Invention of the Enemy.

The dream is short, repentance long.

I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.