The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
Always scorn appearances and you always may.
Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
All high beauty has a moral element in it.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.