I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

We must be doing something to be happy.

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