The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.