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.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.