Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.