We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.