Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

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?

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.