K. Webster Quotes
But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.
Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free.
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'
Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.
If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.
And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
