The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.