As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.