The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

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.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.