A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.