Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.