When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?
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.