There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man's great striving.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.