Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.