Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.