If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
The mathematics of high achievement
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.