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.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.