Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.