Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.