Taste is the common sense of genius.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.