To be great is to be misunderstood.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.