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.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.