To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, -- the work of genius. And the individual, in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument