Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.