Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

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