It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.