Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.