All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.