Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

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

Docility is the observable half of reason.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.