Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.