"Let no one who wishes to receive agreeable impressions of American manners, commence their travels in a Mississippi s…"

"I sometimes think, sir, that your fences might be in more thorough repair, and your roads in better order, if less ti…"

"A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world,…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"

"Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the v…"