Good temper is an estate for life.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

The more we do, the more we can do.