Every man has his devilish minutes.

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.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs