No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.