Collectors are happy people.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Manners form the great charm of women.

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.