Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.