Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

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.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.