Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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

... 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)

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.