Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.