A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
We must be doing something to be happy.
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.