There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Artists are always young.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.