The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.