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.

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.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

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

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.