Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.