What Nature is to God, art should be to man,--a sublime, beneficent, genial, and warm creation.
That wretch may be a PAINTER, not an ARTIST." "And pardon me if I ask what YOU know of one you thus disparage ?" "I know thus much, that you are beneath my care if it be necessary to warn you against him; his own lips show the hideousness of his heart.
Why should I tell you of the crimes he has committed?
He SPEAKS crime!" "You do not seem, Signor Zanoni, to be one of the admirers of the dawning Revolution.

Perhaps you are prejudiced against the man because you dislike the opinions ?" "What opinions ?" Glyndon paused, somewhat puzzled to define; but at length he said, "Nay, I must wrong you; for you, of all men, I suppose, cannot discredit the doctrine that preaches the infinite improvement of the human species." "You are right; the few in every age improve the many; the many now may be as wise as the few were; but improvement is at a standstill, if you tell me that the many now are as wise as the few ARE." "I comprehend you; you will not allow the law of universal equality!" "Law! If the whole world conspired to enforce the falsehood they could not make it LAW.

Level all conditions to-day, and you only smooth away all obstacles to tyranny to-morrow.

A nation that aspires to EQUALITY is unfit for FREEDOM.

Throughout all creation, from the archangel to the worm, from Olympus to the pebble, from the radiant and completed planet to the nebula that hardens through ages of mist and slime into the habitable world, the first law of Nature is inequality." "Harsh doctrine, if applied to states.