The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

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.

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