Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

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.

Heaven is for those who think of it.