Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

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

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.