In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.