The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.