To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.