Invention is totally independent of the will.
All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.