Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

Rest is for the dead.

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.