A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.