"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius ..." — Johann Kaspar Lavater

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.