Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.