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 paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

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

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