Every wise man lives in an observatory.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

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!

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.