Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.