Men in all ways are better than they seem.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

The language of the street is always strong.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.