We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Slander is the solace of malignity.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.