Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.