Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

Every wall is a door.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

Art is a jealous mistress.