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.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

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.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

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

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.