The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.