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.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

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

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.