... 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 history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.