Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.