Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.