It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.