In Nature Nothing Can Be Given. All

The Craft Of The Merchant Is This Bringing A Thing Where It Abounds To Where It Is Costly.

In England Every Man You Meet Is Some Man's Son; In America, He May Be Some Man's Father.

Art Is A Jealous Mistress; And If A Man Have A Genius For Painting, Poetry, Music, Architecture Or Philosophy, He Makes A Bad Husband And An Ill Provider.

Whatever Events In Progress Shall Disgust Men With Cities, And Infuse Into Them The Passion For Country Life, And Country Pleasures, Will Render A Service To The Whole Face Of This Continent, And Will Further The Most Poetic Of All The Occupations Of Real Life, The Bringing Out By Art The Native But Hidden Graces Of The Landscape.

Courage Is Temperamental, Scientific, Ideal.