"Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?" — 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.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.