Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

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

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

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.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.