Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.