Life protracted is protracted woe.
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.