Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

No institution will be better than the institutor.

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.