Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.