No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.