In good writing, words become one with things.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.