The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
God will not make himself manifest to cowards
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.