Writing is the painting of the voice.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

We must cultivate our own garden.