A friend is the hope of the heart.

When a man meets his make, society begins.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Life too near paralyses art.