Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.