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.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.