He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

Man errs as long as he strives.