She had thought too much to be able to indulge in the primitive luxury of unqualified condemnation.

HUMAN speech conveys different meanings to differently biassed minds.

HOW often we judge unjustly when we judge harshly… Whoso judges harshly is sure to judge amiss.

It is good counsel that a man should, if he has the chance, reconsider after his holiday any important decision that he was inclined to make just before it;  that he should appeal from his tired to his refreshed self;

…help to keep consistency from hardening to obstinacy, and common sense from sinking into time-serving;

TEMPERANCE is reason’s girdle and passion’s bridle.

It is easier in many cases to pluck out the right eye or to cut off the right hand than to discipline and employ them.

A WELL-GOVERNED mind learns in time to find pleasure in nothing but the true and the just.

SUPPOSE any man shall despise me.   Let him look to that himself.   But I will look to this, that I be not discovered doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.