The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.