Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.