Never read any book that is not a year old.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.
[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.