Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

In every good man a God doth dwell.