A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

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

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

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.

Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.