Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.