It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.