Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

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

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.