Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

Convert life into truth.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.