Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

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.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.