Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Children are what the mothers are.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

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

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.