Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

The gentleman is a man of truth.