I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.