There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.