When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

No day is without its innocent hope.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.