Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

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