The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.