Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.