You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

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.