Mistakes are often the best teachers.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.