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.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

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

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.