We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought