My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.