Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.