We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.