Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.