We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.