There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.

To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!