“Paint the essential character of things.”
“The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.”
“There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.”
“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.”
“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
“Unity in essentials, liberty in non-essentials, charity in all things.”