Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.