What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.