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

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

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

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

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!

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.