To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.