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W. Allston. . Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.
W. Allston. . Love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.
W. B. Clulow. . Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other.
W. B. Clulow. . I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles.
W. B. Clulow. . Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently it becomes its master.
W. B. Clulow. . Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
W. C. Bryant. . Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The eternal years of God are hers; / But error, wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies among his worshippers.
W. C. Bryant. . Who shall place / A limit to the giant's unchained strength, / Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
W. E. Channing. . It is not the quantity, but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
W. E. Channing. . Most joyful let the poet be; / It is through him that all men see.
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