A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.