Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.