Space is to place as eternity is to time.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.