He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

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.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.