The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.