All finery is a sign of littleness.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

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

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.