Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.