We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.