...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.