The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

All men in the abstract are just and good.