It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Obedience decks the Christian most.