Don't judge a book by its cover

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.