When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.