Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.