The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.