Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

Popularity is for dolls.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

There is properly no history, only biography.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.