It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.