Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

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

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

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.