Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.