He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?