To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

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.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.