Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Better too much form than too little.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.