To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
Politeness smooths wrinkles.
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.
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