The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

Fear is cruel and mean.

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.