Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

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