There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.