Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

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.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.