What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.