Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.