Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.