The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The highest virtue is always against the law.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in wisdom.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.