Who said “Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the…”?

“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”

“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.”

“I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.”

“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”

“Be smart, but never show it.”

“If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.”

“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?”

“For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.”

“Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.”

“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”

“If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.”