If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.