Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.