Custom doth make dotards of us all.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.