A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.