Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.