Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

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

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.