ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.