I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
Virtue is its own reward.
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Thrift is of great revenue.