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

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner.

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

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.

Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act.

In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.