Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.