Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.