For every benefit you receive a tax is levied..

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness..

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not….

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad..

Souls are not saved in bundles..

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays..

The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a fa….

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope..

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports..

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies ….

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct..

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow..

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, whi….

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes..

In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchan….

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles..

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative..

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me..

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and….

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the….

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both..