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

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

Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

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