The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.