History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.