Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.