Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.