“Avarice is the vice of declining years.”
“The public is wiser than the wisest critic.”
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.”
“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”
“In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.”
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
“By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.”
“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.”