Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.