A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.