Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.