That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.