We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

There is one mind common to all individual men

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.