Goodness that preaches undoes itself.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.