he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Frankness invites frankness.