A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

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

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.