Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.