Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

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

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.