Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

The unhappy never want enemies.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.