All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.