I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.