But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.