It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

You cannot make a cheap palace.