There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Every movement reveals us.
Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.