The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

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.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

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

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

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

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.