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

Principle is a passion for truth.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.