It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.