Beauty can inspire miracles.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.