Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.