There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ''spectacles'' to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Reflection makes men cowards.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.