A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.