Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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