The sun is but a morning star.
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Only poetry inspires poetry.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake.
She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.
Nothing is real.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
