Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.