A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. |
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth |
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. |
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never |
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather |
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. |
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself |
Trust in my affection for you. |
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are |
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are |
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. |