Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.