Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.