Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.