We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.