“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.”

“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.”

“The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”

“It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.”

“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”

“Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds”

“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough”