Imagination is the eye of the soul.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.