Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

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

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

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

the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

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

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.