Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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.

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

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.