Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

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.