Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.