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

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.