Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

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

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

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

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 who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.