No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.