As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.