Beautiful Works Do Not Intoxicate, But They

We Use Up In The Passions The Stuff That Was Given Us For Happiness.

Space Is The Stature Of God.

Genuine Witticisms Surprise Those Who Say Them As Much As Those Who Listen To Them; They Arise In Us In Spite Of Us, Or, At Least, Without Our Participation,--like Everything Inspired.

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!

The True Character Of Epistolary Style Is Playfulness And Urbanity.