Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. - John Lancaster Spalding

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.

The narrow-minded and petty sticklers for the formalities which hedge rank and office are the true vulgarians, however observant they be of etiquette.