I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.