I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.