We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

Character is very much a matter of health.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.