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.

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 longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

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

Never disregard what your enemies say. They may be severe, they may be prejudiced, they may be determined to see only in one direction, but still in that direction see clearly. They do not speak all the truth, but they generally speak the truth from one point of view; so far as that goes, attend to them.