Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

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

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

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

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

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.