Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
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.