We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.