The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

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

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.