Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Seeking is not always the way to find.