The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

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

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Good temper is an estate for life.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.