As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.