The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.