What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.