The highest Beauty should be plain set.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Friendship buys friendship.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.