Conscience is wiser than science.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.