Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.