Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.