Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

To be gret is to be misunderstood.