Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.