We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

• Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.
• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
• Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
• Imagination is the eye of the soul.
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
• One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
• He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.