Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

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

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.