A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.