Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

The burden of the incommunicable.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.