If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.