To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

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

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.