The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
New occasions teach new duties.
To genius life never grows commonplace.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
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.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.