Forgive what you can't excuse.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

It's in no way my interest (according to the common acceptance of that word) to convince the world of their errors; that is, I shall get nothing from it but the private satisfaction of having done good to mankind, and I know nobody that reckons that satisfaction any part of their interest.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.