A good deal of our politics is physiological.

Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

A little praise goes a great ways.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.