Great men always pay deference to greater.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.