For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.