It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Character is that which can do without success.