When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.