We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

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

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