Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.