I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.