His labor was worth several times what he received for it, but the price was increased and work of higher grade given him simply because men seek the services of those who are known to be faithful, and employ them in as lofty work as they seem able to do.

And so he toiled upward until he began to employ himself, his work sure of a market at some price, and the price increasing as other men began to get glimpses of the transcendent art revealed in his paintings, an art not fully comprehended even in our day.

He surpassed the acknowledged masters in various fields of landscape work, and left matchless studies of natural scenery in lines never before attempted.
What Shakespeare is in literature, Turner is in his special field, the greatest name on record.
The demand for perfection in the nature of Wendell Phillips was wonderful.

Every word must exactly express the shade of his thought; every phrase must be of due length and cadence; every sentence must be perfectly balanced before it left his lips.

Exact precision characterized his style.