Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.