People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

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.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.