A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.