Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.