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.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.