Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.