To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
Faith is necessary to victory.
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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.