It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.