Ornaments were invented by modesty.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
Living requires but little life; doing requires much.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
It is always our inabilities that vex us.