Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.