For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

God hid the whole world in thy heart.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.