More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.