The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Happiness lies in hope.

Its easy to be a show off, but it is hard to know how to show it off.

Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

How like they are to human things!

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.