For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.