Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.