It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.