If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.