 All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. |
| A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. |
| The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. |
| Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. Topics: Childhood |
| What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. |
| Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. |
| In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. |
| We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. |
| What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. |
| Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. |
