Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.