What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.