All life is an experiment.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Blame is safer than praise

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.