Virtue is no empty echo.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

The strong man is strongest when alone.