A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
Literature is the garden of wisdom.
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.