Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

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 writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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.