The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.