The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.