“To teach is to learn twice.”
“Space is the stature of God.”
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
“Ornaments were invented by modesty.”
“Chance generally favors the prudent.”
“Ask the young. They know everything.”
“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”
“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”
“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”
“Children need models rather than critics.”
“The passions of the young are vices in the old.”
“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.”
“Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.”
“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”
“The mind's direction is more important than its progress.”
“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”
“Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.”
“He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.”
“The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.”
“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.”
“Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.”
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”