The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

In imitation is a bit suicide.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.