Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.