Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.