We put our love where we have put our labor..

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine..

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-m….

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but ….

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of….

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man..

The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of tho….

We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true..

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt hi….

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people can….

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it i….

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward..

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..

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator ….

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues..

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties t….

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of..

He only is rich who owns the day..

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put….

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, betwe….

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense..