Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.