The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.