No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.