Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.