Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.