For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

The health of the eye demands a horizon.