We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

No animal admires another animal.

How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.