The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.