When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

Life too near paralyses art.

Knowledge is the only elegance.