Bigotry.—All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.—Pope.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.—Chapin.
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.—Addison.
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.—Feltham.
Biography.—The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.—Samuel Smiles.
Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.—Horace Mann.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.—Plutarch.
Boasting.—Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.—Lavater.
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.—Young.
A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.—Shakespeare.