There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

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

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.