Virtue is the health of the soul.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
We disjoint the mind like the body.
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.