Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.