He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.