The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

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Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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