“Probabilities—the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.”

“No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.”

“A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.”

“If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.”

“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”

“A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.”

“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.”