In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas