The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

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

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.