It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.