In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.