To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

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

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

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

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.