The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.