Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.