Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.