No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.