He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.