The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.