You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Some will always be above others.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.