The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.