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.

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

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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

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.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

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.