On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.