There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.