God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

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.