He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.