The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.