It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.