There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: the rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.