Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)