Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.