One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.