Quotes from Thomas Noon Talfourd

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.