Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is ba…

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Je ne concois guere (mon cerveau serait-il un miroir ensorcele?) un type de Beaute ou il n'y ait du Malheur. Appuye sur - d'autres diraient: obsede par - ces i…

Imagine my glimpses at that clock as the gropings of a spiritual eye which seeks to adjust its vision to an exact focus. The moment the focus is reached the ob…