Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.