Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
Repetition is the mother of education.
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.