Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

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

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.