Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.