Genius Borrows nobly.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.