Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.