People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.