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.

Children need models rather than critics.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

To teach is to learn twice.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.