Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.