Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
Some people are proud of their humility.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.