Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Character is that which can do without success.

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.