We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.