Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.