You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

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

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

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