We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.