Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."