Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.