I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

The eye is the best of artists.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.