As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

Genius appeals to the future.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

America is a country of young men.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.