More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.