What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

When we have got it, we want something else.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.