Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

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.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.