Taste is the next gift to genius.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.