Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.