Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.