Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

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.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.