What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

The order of things consents to virtue.