We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.