Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.