When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.