Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

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.