That man is idle who can do something better.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.