What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.