Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

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.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.