He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

The conscience is more wise than science.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

The worst of faces still is human.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.