Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.