I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Nature is stronger than education.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.