But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.