Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.