Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.