If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.