Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.