Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Make youself necessary to someone.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

I like people who like Plato.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.