Everything popular is wrong.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.