Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

... 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)

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.