There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.