"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."

"It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do."

"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and firing of the idea of the beautiful into us."