“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”

“A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.”

“The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

“The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”