How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

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.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?