As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

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.

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