Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.