Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
The conscience is more wise than science.
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.