Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
People do more from custom than from reason.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
As the old proverb says 'Like readily consorts with like'.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
