Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.