Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.