The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.