A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.