Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.