General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

A great mind must be androgynous.