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 god- like ease and power.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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