Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ — very ready to take things on trust if it be told them … - Samuel Butler

How is it, I wonder, that all religious officials, from God the Father to the parish beadle, should be so arbitrary and exacting.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

It is curious that money, which is the most valuable thing in life, exceptis excipiendis, should be the most fatal corrupter of music, literature, painting and all the arts. As soon as any art is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.