A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.