Generosity is the flower of justice.

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.