Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.