As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.