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

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion.

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.

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.