In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.