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

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

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.