Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.