“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”

“The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?”

“thought can never ripen into truth.”

“Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”