Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

The grand instructor, time.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.