Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
All mankind love a lover.
God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose faithful work will answer for him.
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Beauty without expression tires.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.