Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.