The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.