Who said “The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.”?

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”

“He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.”

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”

“Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”

“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”

“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”

“The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.”

“A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”