The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.