Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.