The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?