Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.