Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.